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Barbara Bodine, a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that even the most optimistic regional experts did not share President Obama's view in the fall that the Yemen campaign was a model of success.

"It was being defined in terms of what we were doing to develop local forces and use drones and counter the immediate and real security threat," said Mrs. Bodine, now director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. "But what we hadn't done, certainly had not done visibly enough, was get at the economic and governance issues that were driving the problem."